Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-07 Thread Chris Murphy
ave been OK after all, because those users could just boot the installer with inst.mbr. I'm not sure whether it makes sense to deprecate this now though. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-07 Thread Chris Murphy
I'm rapidly approaching the "fuck it" stage, because the burden is too high. I don't do anywhere near as much kernel regression testing because (a) I don't want to disable Secure Boot and (b) I'm unwilling to go through the hurdles to sign the kernel w

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-06 Thread Chris Murphy
nly aren't proposing that we use the standard Fedora keys to > sign a binary blob that runs in kernel space from a company who was > most recently hacked last month? No way. I don't think there's a mechanism for it, but I'd prefer Fedora sign the 3rd party's key rather tha

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
> On 4/5/22 19:38, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Apple and Microsoft signing NVIDIA's proprietary driver doesn't at all > > indicate Apple and Microsoft trust the driver itself. It is trusting > > the providence of the blob, in order to achieve an overall safer > > ec

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:55 PM Jared Dominguez wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:51 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: >> > Legacy BIOS support is not >> > removed, but new non-UEFI installatio

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
rted for new installations. This is removal of support. No mere deprecation. > Installs will continue to work on UEFI, and will not work on Legacy > BIOS. Again, removal of support. The change does prevent their use for new clean installations. -- Chris Murphy

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
ld or we don't. I want them in the fold *despite* the driver that needs signing is proprietary. That's a better user experience across the board, including the security messaging is made consistent. The existing policy serves no good at all and is double talk. If we really care about security mo

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
use the "small" config from there, which includes the smaller > inode_size. The thresholds are hard-coded in mke2fs though. OK this explains what's going on. Anaconda doesn't do mkfs.ext4, it executes mke2fs, so the small fs_type values are probably being applied, rather th

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
021)' Pretty sure what you need is the extra_isize feature, which requires 256 byte inode size, which near as I can tell is the mkfs.ext4 default. When I change to a 300M loop device size, and reformat, I still get 256 inode_size, and extra_isize is also set. -- Chris Mur

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:42 PM Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:51 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:47 AM Gregory Bartholomew >> wrote: >> >> > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server insta

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
bably unacceptably high that the user ends up abandoned on a deserted island, in which case it's better to just steer them toward the well understood and document process of reprovisioning (clean install time). Yes it's tedious, but it's well understood and very reliable, and that counts fo

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
It is possible to do this. But Cloud has a much narrower set of virtualized firmwares to deal with, and getting bugs fixed is pretty likely. Whereas any bugs discovered in hardware's firmware is unlikely to get fixed anytime soon. The biggest though is likely lack of resources. It'd amount to foisti

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
permit the loading of non-compliant bootloaders. That'd seem to be a Secure Boot break worthy of a firmware update. In particular if it's also possible to invoke CSM boot via NVRAM variables. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproj

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
both, just as Cloud edition is today. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-

Re: F36: Nautilus not mount SMB-Shares

2022-04-01 Thread Chris Murphy
eems to work. > > Roger > > Am 01.04.22 um 19:46 schrieb Chris Murphy: > > Bug is in samba. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068976 > > > > -- > > Chris > > ___ > > test mailing list -- test@l

Re: F36: Nautilus not mount SMB-Shares

2022-04-01 Thread Chris Murphy
Bug is in samba. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068976 -- Chris ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-31 Thread Chris Murphy
s, since I don't see the black-only option there anymore. Yeah. Jargon. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.

Re: regression in printing and scanning, when upgrading to f36

2022-03-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:54 AM Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > > Hi all, > > On 3/29/22 23:25, Chris Murphy wrote: > > * have a one time service delete all the printers, thereby forcing the > > user to readd them, and then document this story > > The statements from ab

regression in printing and scanning, when upgrading to f36

2022-03-29 Thread Chris Murphy
e it's possible at this point, cc'd Zdenek) * have a notification pop-up warn the user (this is probably an f37 timeframe) * have a one time service delete all the printers, thereby forcing the user to readd them, and then document this story Thanks, -- Chris

Re: maybe OT

2022-03-27 Thread Chris Murphy
ence that it can be repaired rather than make things worse. So you should start out with the earlier mount commands to get anything important out of the fs first. IF those don't work and there's important information to get out, you need to use btrfs restore. -- Chris Murphy __

Re: Fedora 35 swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument

2022-03-27 Thread Chris Murphy
ain, and that's incompatible with using them as swapfiles. The entry in fstab looks like this: UUID=$uuid /var/swap btrfs noatime,subvol=varswap 0 0 man 5 btrfs has a SWAPFILE SUPPORT section that's fairly detailed steps. -- Chris Murphy

Re: How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-03-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 5:00 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 2:32 PM Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:14 PM Chris Murphy > > wrote: > > > > > > For all practical purposes, this is fu

Re: How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-03-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 2:32 PM Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:14 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > For all practical purposes, this is functionally the end to dual boot > > in GRUB, if there is no work around, e.g. bootnext. Is tha

Re: How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-03-25 Thread Chris Murphy
For all practical purposes, this is functionally the end to dual boot in GRUB, if there is no work around, e.g. bootnext. Is that the direction GRUB maintainers want to go in? -- Chris Murphy ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https

Re: enabling hibernate on a new F35 installation

2022-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
that you can hibernate, but > not resume? > > The fix is to run "dracut -a resume -f". This will update the initramfs > to include the bits that let resume work. In order for this to continue > working with kernel updates, you need to add a dracut config file with >

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
(a) consistency no matter the existence of /usr/lib/modules (b) we don't get hung up somehow loading the graphical environment possibly needing things in /usr/lib/modules that aren't available. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.f

"rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
fs's in Fedora infra and signing them? * Stuff a graphical rescue environment into the initramfs? (This might be ten leaps too far, but it's intended to encourage thinking with a vivid imagination.) [1] both values from a recent Fedora 36 Workstation installation [2] https://pagure

rfc: new beta release criterion for minimum firefox version

2022-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
. B. Release-blocking desktops must ship a version of Firefox [default web browser] that avoids it being downgraded when performing a system upgrade. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2057193#c6 -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -

Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:35 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > A work around is having GRUB set an NVRAM variable indicating the next > > boot should be Windows. That's an instruction to the firmware, so > > there's no intermediary, thus measu

future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
important is this? -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 3:19 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 22.02.22 14:36, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:34 PM Gary Buhrmaster > > wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps there are additional hints in: &g

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
help. # systemctl show -p WantedBy,RequiredBy,After,Before network-online.target RequiredBy= WantedBy=packagekit.service dnf-makecache.timer Before=shutdown.target iscsid.service kdump.service dnf-makecache.service iscsi.service After=network.target NetworkManager-wait-online.se

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:50 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:41:50AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-makecache.timer > > [Unit] > > Description=dnf makecache --timer > > ConditionKernelComman

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
ts causing this problem than just the two I'm seeing. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/pr

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
stall, nfs-convert.service is enabled, but vendor preset is disabled. I do not know why. When I use "systemctl preset-all" it's not enabled. And I'm not finding any candidates in /etc for a local change. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:09 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 22.02.22 09:38, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > > > Do any of Fedora desktop spins and Workstation edition need > > NetworkManager-wait-online.service enabled by default? > > > &g

Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
boot time doesn't seem reasonable. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-con

netconsole on wifi

2022-02-16 Thread Chris Murphy
spits out its kernel messages to the computer with wifi, no problem. And there's no kernel warnings. Thanks, -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-14 Thread Chris Murphy
file. (You could use 'btrfs send -f' and place the stream as a file on a non-btrfs file system. But you can't really look inside of it like a snapshot received on a btrfs file system.) -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-11 Thread Chris Murphy
lost files and more completely intact files because single profile doesn't stripe data. -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct

Re: How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-02-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:29 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:46:33AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:18 AM Lennart Sorensen > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Chris Murph

Re: How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-02-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:18 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > One idea I've heard floated is, having GRUB alter efivars such that > > BootNext is changed to do a one time boot of Windows, instead of using > &

Re: How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
tNext" for this use case? Or else I guess distros need to consider removing the creation of a Windows menu entry, as there's no point creating menu entries that don't work. -- Chris Murphy ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lis

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
age, really. If you've ever been confused about strip and stripe [3], it's not you, it's the words themselves. [3] These two terms are not synonyms. [4] [4] It really could make you a bit bonkers. I've really digressed now. -- Chris Murphy ___ use

Re: lsetxattr failed, SELINUX_ERR op=setxattr invalid_context

2022-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
Oops wrong list, I'll repost to seli...@lists.fedoraproject.org On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 4:10 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running Fedora 35, and I'm trying to replicate a Fedora 36 root > snapshot from one Btrfs file system to another, but it fails. > > This

Re: search by partition type guid supported?

2022-02-07 Thread Chris Murphy
I'm not super fussy how that's done. The advantage of this is permitting static creation of configuration files, less dependency on customized configuration. -- Chris Murphy ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

How to boot Windows when Bitlocker enabled with key sealed in TPM

2022-02-07 Thread Chris Murphy
requirement that supporting hardware have TPM 2.0. -- Chris Murphy ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Failed installation of F 35 Workstation

2022-01-30 Thread Chris Murphy
MBR gap for GRUB to be installed. fdisk -l /dev/sdX -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en

Re: mv is massively slower on the host rather than in a nspawn chroot, regression somewhere?

2022-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
st as they are in normal write workloads, can get extremely bogged down and take minutes to recover. So I wouldn't discount hardware as a contributing factor, even if it is also a regression. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedorap

Re: [systemd-devel] No space left errors on shutdown with systemd-homed /home dir

2022-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
the underlying filesystem? And then do an fs resize (shrink or grow) as needed on login, so that the user home shows ~80% of the free space in the underlying file system? homework-luks.c:3407:/* Before we shrink, let's trim the file system, so that we need less space on disk during the shrinking */ -- Chris Murphy

systemd-nspawn woes in Fedora with Container and Cloud base images

2022-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
-nspawn -M FCB35-20220127 Multiple suitable root partitions found in image '/var/lib/machines/FCB35-20220127.raw'. https://pagure.io/cloud-sig/issue/367 Since I got stuck at this point, there may still be more issues to report. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel ma

Re: search by partition type guid supported?

2022-01-28 Thread Chris Murphy
Forgot to mention, I do see GRUB knows about "BIOS boot" partition type guid, when it comes to the grub-install command. But I'm not sure if GRUB as a concept of doing a search by arbitrary partition type codes. Thanks, Chris Murphy ___

search by partition type guid supported?

2022-01-28 Thread Chris Murphy
much more generic and portable, searching by partition types rather than by specific and unique file system or partition UUIDs. Thanks, -- Chris Murphy ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [systemd-devel] No space left errors on shutdown with systemd-homed /home dir

2022-01-27 Thread Chris Murphy
right now. https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/271 I'm not sure if systemd folks would use libbtrfsutil facility to determine the minimum device shrink size? But also even the kernel doesn't have a very good idea of how small a file system can be shrunk. Right now it basically has to just start trying, and does it one block group at a time. Adding systemd-devel@ -- Chris Murphy

Re: mv is massively slower on the host rather than in a nspawn chroot, regression somewhere?

2022-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:44 AM Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > Apparently this happens also on ext4 filesystems. :facepalm: haha! ok well then the previous email i just sent can be ignored as it relates to this problem! -- Chris Murphy ___ de

Re: mv is massively slower on the host rather than in a nspawn chroot, regression somewhere?

2022-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:41 AM Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > > On 1/24/22 05:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > > What file system is being used in each case? > > > > Everything is btrfs. > > > This is a bit obscure but... cp and mv use reflink=auto. On XFS and > &g

Re: mv is massively slower on the host rather than in a nspawn chroot, regression somewhere?

2022-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
it works. I think on Btrfs, it will create nested subvolumes, i.e. they are not mounted with the subvol mount option, hence no mount point boundary. But on other file systems, I think nspawn creates a loop mounted file system? -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailin

deprecate bootloader selection criterion

2022-01-22 Thread Chris Murphy
ll defaults 4. Click blue text at the bottom "Full disk summary and boot loader..." 5. Select the (in my case single) drive, click the "Do not install bootloader" button 6. Close and install -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- tes

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-21 Thread Chris Murphy
are designed to work, and it's clearly > important enough that we should make it part of the release criteria > that things actually work that way. But for traditional RPM-based > installs, it doesn't really seem like something we can usefully address > in the criteria to me. Not yet. --

Re: [Test-Announce] [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.16 2022-01-23 through 2022-01-29

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Murphy
t 5.16 can have it changed with a boot parameter, preempt=full /proc or /sys should have a way to change it during run time, but might not be available if UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Murphy
e two reboots. There are other ways of updating being explored to reduce the reboot to one. And reduce update frequency so that the compulsory reboots aren't happening more than once every couple weeks, hopefully. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Murphy
system, which was implied in > the past but I assumed it's better to have it clearly visible (this one could > be moved to Beta, possibly). > > Finally it adds a requirement that the package manager must not mislead the > user by showing e.g. something as installed w

Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:14 PM Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On 1/20/22 06:16, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Deleting /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf means making the agent look like a > >> new system, with new IDs, a renumbered interface table, and loss of > >> SNMPv

Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 6:14 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > > > For example, snmpd stores program-generated config in /var/lib/net-snmp, > > > which gets merged with config from /etc/snmp. > > > > What's the exact cons

Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Murphy
m-generated config in /var/lib/net-snmp, > which gets merged with config from /etc/snmp. What's the exact consequence of deleting either /etc/snmp and /var/lib/net-snmp - separately and together? If there's program-generated config in /var/lib/net-snmp, why can't it regenerate it when its missing

Re: F36 Change: Silverblue and Kinoite will have /var on its own Btrfs subvolume (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Murphy
are ideally located on. My instinct is this matters less for installation and daily usage, and more as a logical puzzle for disaster recovery. What items need to be restored and how, in order to make a bad day less bad. Chris Murphy ___ devel mai

Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Murphy
ories is not a good idea. > > /etc is meant to be editable by user. Whereas /var/lib is not: FHS 5.8.1 Users must never need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a package's operation, and the specific file hierarchy used to store the data must not be exposed to reg

Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Murphy
better prepared for this potential. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
Yep. Is a full system rollback really called for here? It'll work, but it's a hammer. So maybe services need to learn to be a little suspicious of /etc configs, and fail safe? Maybe system critical items should be able to fall back to /usr/etc? -- Chris Murphy __

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 9:36 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > > If you value Fedora having a snapshot and rollback scheme of some > > kind, it's useful and beneficial. If you don't, then the change is > > neutral because it has not a s

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
cheme? Maybe this: https://github.com/lnussel/lnussel.github.io/blob/fs/_posts/2020-12-16-fslayout.md -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
up no space and instead all share a single storage pool, though it organizationally adds complexity. Would putting /var/lib/rpm on a dedicated LVM LV actually be entertained? I think it wouldn't. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@l

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
can be disembodied from their payload, just leaving the metadata, seems like it's plausible to reconstruct an rpmdb from checksums of what's installed versus would could be installed. This raises questions like, garbage collection of all these rpm files, would they be removed when the package is remove

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 8:49 AM David Cantrell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:53:52PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > >I don't see how /state solves the problem, rather than just > >rearranging the chairs. > > I've seen the rearranging the chairs comment i

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
information available to us is available to them. Yet they are saying /usr/lib/sysimage is the correct location for rpmdb. It requires a stronger argument than provided so far to convince me they arrived at the wrong conclusion. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel ma

Re: /opt [WAS: Re: New top-level dir]

2022-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
y merge, self-contained in rpm-ostree (on the client)? Would it be practical to split that out in a form that say, dnf or snapper or systemd could make use of? -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:57 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:54 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 1:36 AM Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > > > > So by moving the rpmdb to /usr, it's basically saying tha

Re: /opt [WAS: Re: New top-level dir]

2022-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 7:03 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, at 4:05 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:53:52PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Should /usr be independently portable? And is that with a versio

Re: /opt [WAS: Re: New top-level dir]

2022-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:07 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:53:52PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Should /usr be independently portable? And is that with a version > > matched /opt, or can there be mix and match revisions of /usr and >

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:04 AM Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On 1/12/22 10:45, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:00 AM Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> For many practical purposes it's probably just rearranging the chairs, > >> but a separate top-level di

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
Changes/RelocateRPMToUsr#Dependencies -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
ngs more > problems than it solves. Given the choice, I prefer rpm only touches /usr, which includes /usr/var and /usr/etc. But if left unconstrained, having databases inside the directories they describe is more reliable than treating the database as a sidecar file that can much more

Re: New top-level dir: /state [

2022-01-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 6:56 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 5:39 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:55 AM Stephen Gallagher > > wrote: > > > > > A further quote from the same section of the FHS su

Re: [Rpm-ecosystem] [Rpm-maint] RFC: Relocate RPM and DNF databases to /usr

2022-01-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:42 AM Lukáš Hrázký wrote: > > Chris, apologies for the late reply. > > On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 13:02 -0500, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM Lukáš Hrázký wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 17:08 +01

Re: [Rpm-maint] [Rpm-ecosystem] RFC: Relocate RPM and DNF databases to /usr

2022-01-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:42 AM Lukáš Hrázký wrote: > > Chris, apologies for the late reply. > > On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 13:02 -0500, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM Lukáš Hrázký wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 17:08 +01

Re: New top-level dir: /state [

2022-01-10 Thread Chris Murphy
ditional RPM Fedora. This same hierarchy could be used for > /var/log and /var/lib/libvirt/images as well. This is a nice fit /var/lib/rpm -> /usr/var/lib/rpm But it's an ask directed at those who have already implemented this change, if it's compelling enough for them to change again.

Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

2022-01-10 Thread Chris Murphy
ll time. It either needs to become aware of multiple root trees, and even mix and match top-level directories to create variable roots. And possibly even manage these things. Or it needs to constrain its reach to /usr and /opt. Whether /usr and /opt are tied together

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 6:07 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 7:53 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 7:53 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 3:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > &

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
installs* of the current two releases. But in practice quite a lot of users depend on reliable upgrades for *many* releases, and they get mad when things break even when it's been 10+ releases since they did a clean install. And also, Workstation edition PRD "upgrade process should give a result

Re: F36 Change: DIGLIM (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
module (the parts that are open source anyway). It's an open question who could or should sign NVIDIA's key, to narrowly indicate trust. And also a mechanism for revoking that trust without breaking everything else. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list

Re: Rawhide / systemd 250: kernel-install may place kernels and config in the wrong place

2022-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
fi But now I'm in the weeds, and it should be a different thread to discuss doing something different. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Rawhide / systemd 250: kernel-install may place kernels and config in the wrong place

2022-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:41 AM Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 11:31 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:23 AM Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > > > My rawhide system seem to have both and boot even other kernel: > > >

Re: Rawhide / systemd 250: kernel-install may place kernels and config in the wrong place

2022-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:31 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > If it's missing, I wonder if it's a bug? I thought Fedora's blscfg > looks in all of: > 1. ESP//loader/entries > 2. XBOOTLDR//loader/entries > 3. GRUB's "root"//loader/entries https://src.fedoraproject.org/rp

Re: Rawhide / systemd 250: kernel-install may place kernels and config in the wrong place

2022-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
t's a bug? I thought Fedora's blscfg looks in all of: 1. ESP//loader/entries 2. XBOOTLDR//loader/entries 3. GRUB's "root"//loader/entries In default installs, GRUB root is the 1G ext4 /boot volume. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- dev

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 1:55 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Does anyone know what /var/lib/rpm-state/gconf is used for? Owning > package is GConf2-3.2.6-31.fc35.x86_64 > OK nevermind. GConf2 is dead upstream, and the only thing I have dragging it in is pdfmod. --

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
an rpmdb state change that this location isn't privy to. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org

Re: Bad USB drive?

2021-12-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz > > wrote: > >> so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... > >> > >> S

Re: [systemd-devel] the need for a discoverable sub-volumes specification

2021-12-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 3:59 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > ZFS uses volume and user properties which we could probably mimic with > xattr. I thought I asked about xattr instead of subvolume names at one > point in the thread but I don't see it. So instead of using subvolume > na

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-12-31 Thread Chris Murphy
must fall back to read-only?) Made a note in the change to investigate this. What I'm seeing with stat are ctime and/or mtime updates of the -shm and -wal files. I'm not sure either should be changing. I'm using noatime, but I expect atime updates probably happen with all these files normally.

Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-12-31 Thread Chris Murphy
ure two bugs are filed against libguestfs and > supermin components to track this change (if it happens). Made a note for this in the scope > Will the symlink also exist on new installs, or only on upgrades? Both. -- Chris Murphy ___

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